[EL] Starbucks & NoDough

[David A. Holtzman]

That's one thing I'm wondering.  The discrimination is different.  The 
legal answer might be too.

   - dah


On 8/15/2011 2:39 PM, Peter Overby wrote:
> Wouldn't it be the same leverage for giving to a certain candidate or 
> not giving to any candidate?
>
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> Starbucks' chief wants people to refrain from giving to federal 
> campaigns 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/opinion/nocera-boycott-campaign-donations.html>, 
> as a way to make politicians shape up.
>
> What leverage might he have over his employees to push compliance with 
> a NoDough boycott?
>
> When you donate to a federal campaign, you fill in your employer on 
> the form.Could the head of Starbucks search for "Starbucks" in 
> donation records and penalize the employee-donors in any way?If he has 
> their pictures (say, from ID badges), could he put up posters of shame 
> in Starbucks stores?In backrooms? In public areas?Could he require 
> stores to hand out lists of offenders and their home addresses (from 
> their contribution disclosure forms)?[Or, could somebody else hand out 
> such lists outside Starbucks stores?]Does it matter that the NoDough 
> movement is not a campaign for or against any candidate?
>
> How powerful could a NoDough movement be?
>
> - David A. Holtzman
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> David A. Holtzman, M.P.H., J.D.
> david at holtzmanlaw.com
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